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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Internet Society Briefing Panel @ IETF 87

This past week saw IETF 87, in Berlin Germany, come and go. As usual I met a number of interesting new folks, caught up with old acquaintances I respect (a number of whom now work for Google - it seems to happen when you're not looking at them :)), and got some new ideas into my head (or refined old ones).

On Tuesday I was invited to be part of a panel for the ISOC lunch with Stuart Cheshire and Jason Livingood. We were lead and moderated by the imitable Leslie Daigle.

The panel's topic was "Improving the Internet Experience, All Together Now." I made the case that the standards community needs to think a little less about layers and a little more about the end goal - and by doing so we can provide more efficient building blocks. Otherwise developers find them selves tempted to give up essential properties like security and congestion control in order to build more responsive applications. But we don't need to make that tradeoff.

The audio is available herehttp://www.internetsociety.org/internet-society-briefing-panel-ietf-87 .. unfortunately the audio is full of intolerable squelch until just after the 22:00 mark (I'm the one speaking at that point).. the good news is most of that is "hold music", introductions, and a recap of the panel topic that is also described on the web page.